Each testbook in the Modern Linguistics series is designed to provide a carefully graded introduction to a topic in contemporary linguistics and allied disciplines, presented in a manner that is accessible and attractive to readers with no previous experience of the topic, but leading them to some understanding of current issues. The texts are designed to engage the active participation of the reader, favouring a problem-solving approach and including liberal and varied exercise material.

Description

This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argumentation.

The text is written in a user-friendly style, and progresses through a range of relevant topics of increasing difficulty from the building blocks of language - words and phrases - to constituency and argumentation.

Each chapter includes many examples and exercises, as well as pointers to further reading.

This new edition has been fully updated throughout, and many new exercises have been added which have been graded for difficulty.